US 12,462,614 B2
Lottery ticket vending machine
Paul A Bucci, Glocester, RI (US)
Assigned to Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation, Providence, RI (US)
Filed by Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation, Providence, RI (US)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/328,293.
Prior Publication US 2024/0404324 A1, Dec. 5, 2024
Int. Cl. G07B 5/02 (2006.01); G07B 3/02 (2006.01); G07B 3/04 (2006.01); G07C 15/00 (2006.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G07B 5/02 (2013.01) [G07B 3/02 (2013.01); G07B 3/04 (2013.01); G07C 15/005 (2013.01); G07F 17/329 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
a housing;
a ticket drawer column in the housing, the ticket drawer column comprising a plurality of ticket drawers, each of the ticket drawers configured to hold one or more strips of lottery tickets;
a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster defining a ticket inlet and a ticket outlet, the ticket burster movable to a plurality of different ticket receipt positions, each different ticket receipt position associated with and in alignment with a different one of the ticket drawers;
a tape sensor supported by the ticket burster, configured to obtain data for adjacent lottery tickets that move from one of the ticket drawers into the ticket burster, and configured to transmit the data; and
a controller configured to receive the data from the tape sensor, determine if tape is connected to the adjacent lottery tickets and cause an action to be taken responsive to determining that the tape is connected to the lottery tickets.